Web Strategies for the Curation and Discovery of Open Educational Resources

Vivien Rolfe

doi:10.5944/openpraxis.8.4.305

Web Strategies for the Curation and Discovery of Open Educational Resources

Open Praxis

Volume 8 (2016): Issue 4

By: Vivien Rolfe

Open Access

|Oct 2016

Abstract

For those receiving funding from the UK HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resource Programme (2009– 2012), the sustainability of project outputs was one of a number of essential goals. Our approach for the hosting and distribution of health and life science open educational resources (OER) was based on the utilisation of the WordPress.org blogging platform and search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques to curate content and widen discovery.

This paper outlines the approaches taken and tools used at the time, and reflects upon the effectiveness of web strategies several years post-funding. The paper concludes that using WordPress.org as a platform for sharing and curating OER, and the adoption of a pragmatic approach to SEO, offers cheap and simple ways for small-scale open education projects to be effective and sustainable.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.8.4.305 | Journal eISSN: 2304-070X

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Language: English

Page range: 297 - 312

Submitted on: Apr 5, 2016

Accepted on: Oct 10, 2016

Published on: Oct 1, 2016

Published by: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Open educational resources,

OER curation,

OER discovery,

OER sustainability,

Reuse,

Search engine optimisation,

SEO

© 2016 Vivien Rolfe, published by International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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